I immediately concede that newer designs such as Glock and the M&P are better designs. Far simpler, easier to manufacture and made more advanced materials.
The 1911 is an old design. It's complicated and needs lots of pay-attention and tribal-know-how to make correctly.
Mr Yam is not mistaken about today's 1911.
What I am baffled by is how none of what everyone hates about them was present in my tank battalion in 1987-89.
Our guns were shot out, but they went bang every time and cycled as long as there were bullets. When I arrived at Panzer Kaserne, the newest of our pistols had to be at least 41 years old. My issue gun had a Colt frame and a Remington-Rand slide!
Because I was fascinated with guns in general I volunteered to help the company arms-room sergeant in keeping the guns up. It was 90% making sure they were turned in clean. He replaced a couple of front sights and we replaced a lot of worn out stocks and a couple of mainspring housings that'd lost their lanyard rings.
The magazines we DX'd were obviously physically damaged, like bent damaged. I never tuned an extractor, or saw it done.
It can't all be due to only using cartridge, caliber .45, ball, M1911 can it?
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